Powerhouse Films presents Indicator - A new British Blu-ray/DVD label

[dan8885]

INDICATOR is a new British Blu-ray and DVD label owned and operated by Powerhouse Films Ltd, London, England. Founded by industry veterans with a passion for physical media, INDICATOR will initially publish an extensive range of classic films in expertly encoded Limited Dual Format Editions (UK premiere Blu-ray editions including a DVD and booklet).

Mastered from the finest available materials, INDICATOR releases will also contain lovingly produced and assembled extra features and include new and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Dual Format Editions will contain exclusive, limited edition booklets featuring newly commissioned essays and contemporary interviews, articles or reviews.

List of Indicator editions:

001 - CHRISTINE (John Carpenter, 1983) - Released October 24, 2016
002 - BODY DOUBLE (Brian De Palma, 1984) - Released October 24, 2016
003 - GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (Stanley Kramer, 1967) - Release November 28, 2016
004 - TO SIR, WITH LOVE (James Clavell, 1967) - Released November 28, 2016
005 - 10 RILLINGTON PLACE (Richard Fleischer, 1971) - Released November 28, 2016
006 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME (J. Lee Thompson, 1981) - Released December 12, 2016
007 - THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Orson Welles, 1947) - Released April 24, 2017
008 - BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (Otto Preminger, 1965) - Released February 20, 2017
009 - FAT CITY (John Huston, 1972) - Released March 20, 2017
010 - THE LAST DETAIL (Hal Ashby, 1973) - Released February 20, 2016
011 - EXPERIMENT IN TERROR (Blake Edwards, 1962) - Released April 24, 2017
012 - THE ANDERSON TAPES (Sidney Lumet, 1971) - Released February 20, 2016
013 - THE NEW CENTURIONS - (Richard Fleischer, 1972) - Released January 23, 2017
014 - HARDCORE (Paul Schrader, 1979) - Release April 24, 2017
015 - THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (Roy Rowland, 1953) - Release July 24, 2017
016 - THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang, 1953) - Released March 20, 2017
017 - THE WILD ONE (László Benedek, 1953) - Release May 22, 2017
018 - TBA
019 - VAMPIRES - (John Carpenter, 2001) - Released January 23, 2017
020 - GHOSTS OF MARS - (John Carpenter, 2001) - Released January 23, 2017
021 - TBA
022 - TBA
023 - TBA
024 - THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (Nathan Juran, 1958) - Release June 26, 2016
025 - THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD (Gordon Hessler, 1973) - Release June 26, 2016
026 - SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (Sam Wanamaker, 1977) - Release June 26, 2016
027 - THE FRONT (Martin Ritt, 1976) - Release March 20, 2017
028 - TBA
029 - HOUSEKEEPING (Bill Forsyth, 1987) - Release May 22, 2017
030 - MICKEY ONE (Arthur Penn, 1965) - Release July 24, 2017
031 - CASTLE KEEP (Sydney Pollack, 1968) - Release July 24, 2017
032 - TBA
033 - THE STONE KILLER (Michael Winner, 1973) - Release May 22, 2017


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[dan8885]

This is stupid:
The Guardian interview with John Carpenter PART 1 is a supplement on VAMPIRES.
The Guardian interview with John Carpenter PART 2 is a supplement on GHOSTS OF MARS.
????
VAMPIRES is a great film (will buy), GOM is crap(will not buy). So I will only get 1/2 of an interview?!!
Stupid.

Most people will probably prefer Vampires over GOM so it's no doubt a marketing move to make them related.
Since Indicator is a new label we should forgive them for trying to shift units at the beginning

 

[C.C. 95]

Most people will probably prefer Vampires over GOM so it's no doubt a marketing move to make them related.
Since Indicator is a new label we should forgive them for trying to shift units at the beginning

Well, it isn't going to work!
GOM is TERRIBLE!

 

[Noodles]

Got my Vampires and Ghosts of Mars Bds the other day. Rumour has it that these guys will also be releasing Starman.

Starman is confirmed by Indicator. That's why I already included it in the list above.

Awesome! I asked them for a Starman release through the giveaway HDN held back in October... not saying I had anything to do with their decision to actually release it, but I'm going to pretend that I was anyway.

 

[Lollard2002]

It's the Hammer films they have access to that have peaked my interest.

 

[cooey]

This is stupid:
The Guardian interview with John Carpenter PART 1 is a supplement on VAMPIRES.
The Guardian interview with John Carpenter PART 2 is a supplement on GHOSTS OF MARS.
????
VAMPIRES is a great film (will buy), GOM is crap (will not buy). So I will only get 1/2 of an interview?!!
Stupid.

Not stupid at all mate, if you want both interviews you gotta buy both. In a business sense it makes perfect sense

GOM gets a lot of hate, it's certainly not Carpenters best but I think it's good fun

 

[C.C. 95]

Not stupid at all mate, if you want both interviews you gotta buy both. In a business sense it makes perfect sense

GOM gets a lot of hate, it's certainly not Carpenters best but I think it's good fun

Would you feel the same way if the second part of the interview required you to buy THE WARD, or MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN?!
It's not a good tactic. I would have purchased VAMPIRES if it had the whole interview.
But, I have the Twilight Time edition, so they won't get my money. Had they had the whole interview, I would have purchased.
Now I'll find the interview elsewhere and author my own supplement BR and slap it in the TT edition.
(IT just isn't worth it for just an interview)

 

[cooey]

Would you feel the same way if the second part of the interview required you to buy THE WARD, or MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN?!
It's not a good tactic. I would have purchased VAMPIRES if it had the whole interview.
But, I have the Twilight Time edition, so they won't get my money. Had they had the whole interview, I would have purchased.
Now I'll find the interview elsewhere and author my own supplement BR and slap it in the TT edition.
(IT just isn't worth it for just an interview)

I'd buy those regardless of the interview

 

[C.C. 95]

I'd buy those regardless of the interview

You drink deeply from the well of the Carpenterverse!

 

[bigrob]

GOM gets a lot of hate, it's certainly not Carpenters best but I think it's good fun

Is that why you sent me your spare BD copy of the film lol

 

[bigrob]

Would you feel the same way if the second part of the interview required you to buy THE WARD, or MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN?!
It's not a good tactic. I would have purchased VAMPIRES if it had the whole interview.
But, I have the Twilight Time edition, so they won't get my money. Had they had the whole interview, I would have purchased.
Now I'll find the interview elsewhere and author my own supplement BR and slap it in the TT edition.
(IT just isn't worth it for just an interview)

I can name worse examples

One being Star Trek Into Darkness where the supplements were split over 4 or 5 different retailers as exlcusives all with slipcovers and what not

at least you are buying n two seperate films for the interview and not 4 copies of the same film for a complete package

 

[C.C. 95]

I can name worse examples

One being Star Trek Into Darkness where the supplements were split over 4 or 5 different retailers as exlcusives all with slipcovers and what not

at least you are buying n two seperate films for the interview and not 4 copies of the same film for a complete package

Yep. That was a fiasco.

 

[dan8885]

014 - HARDCORE (Paul Schrader, 1979)
Release date: April 24, 2017
Purchase link: Powerhouse / Amazon
Price: £15.99 (Powerhouse) / £22.99 (Amazon)
Notes: Limited Dual Format Edition of 5,000 copies, Limited edition exclusive booklet, reversible Cover, UK Blu-ray premiere

Spoiler: Description & Special Features

(Paul Schrader, 1979)
Release date: 24 April 2017
Limited Dual Format Edition (UK Blu-ray premiere)

Writer-director Paul Schrader’s brilliant, harrowing film follows the grim pilgrimage of a Calvinist Midwestern businessman (the great George C. Scott) searching for his vanished daughter in the seedy subculture of the LA porn industry.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• 4K restoration from the original negative
• Original mono audio
• Hardcore Nitzsche (2017, tbc mins): All new documentary on composer Jack Nitzsche
• Michael Chapman on 'Hardcore' (2004, 12 mins): the acclaimed cinematographer discusses his work on Hardcore
• The Guardian Interview with Paul Schrader (1993, tbc mins): the director discusses his career at the National Film Theatre, London with journalist Derek Malcolm (audio only)
• Isolated score - experience Jack Nitzsche's original score
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by critic Brad Stevens
• UK Blu-ray premiere
• Limited Dual Format Edition of 5,000 copies
• More TBC

#PHIDFE014
BBFC cert: 18
REGION FREE
EAN: 5037899069950

016 - THE BIG HEAT (Fritz Lang, 1953)
Release date: March 20, 2017
Purchase link: Powerhouse / Amazon
Price: £15.99 (Powerhouse) / £22.99 (Amazon)
Notes: Limited Dual Format Edition of 5,000 copies, Limited edition exclusive booklet, reversible Cover, UK Blu-ray premiere

Spoiler: Description & Special Features

(Fritz Lang, 1953)
Release date: 20 March 2017
Limited Dual Format Edition (UK Blu-ray premiere)

A HARD COP AND A SOFT DAME… IN A BRASS-KNUCKLE THRILLER!

Fritz Lang’s iconic film noir masterpiece is an uncompromising exploration of corruption and violence at the dark heart of small-town America. Glenn Ford is the good cop in a bad town, who single-handedly takes on local mobsters headed by Alexander Scourby and his psychotic right-hand man Lee Marvin.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary by film historians Lem Dobbs, Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
• New filmed appreciation by film historian Tony Rayns (2017, tbc mins)
• Martin Scorsese on The Big Heat (2009, 6 mins)
• Michael Mann on The Big Heat (2009, 11 mins)
• Isolated score
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by critic Glenn Kenny
• Limited Dual Format Edition of 5,000 copies
• UK Blu-ray premiere

#PHIDFE016
BBFC cert: 15
REGION FREE
EAN: 5037899069974

027 - THE FRONT (Martin Ritt, 1976)
Release date: March 20, 2017
Purchase link: Powerhouse / Amazon
Price: £15.99 (Powerhouse) / £22.99 (Amazon)
Notes: Limited Dual Format Edition of 3,000 copies, Limited edition exclusive booklet, reversible Cover, UK Blu-ray premiere

Spoiler: Description & Special Features

(Martin Ritt, 1976)
Release date: 20 March 2017
Limited Dual Format Edition (UK Blu-ray premiere)

What if there were a list?

A list that said: Our finest actors weren't allowed to act. Our best writers aren't allowed to write. Our funniest comedians aren't allowed to make us laugh. What would it be like if there were such a list?

It would be like America in 1953.

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• 4K restoration from the original negative
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary by actress Andrea Marcovicci, and film historians Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman
• Behind the Front (2004, 6 mins): The acclaimed director of photography Michael Chapman discusses his work on The Front
• Isolated score: experience Dave Grusin's original soundtrack music
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
• Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by professor Gabriel Miller, author of The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man
• Limited Dual Format Edition of 3,000 copies
• UK Blu-ray premiere

#PHIDFE027
BBFC cert: 12
REGION FREE
EAN: 5037899071069

 

[dan8885]

Sooo, catching up with wonderful Indicator.

Pre-orders are up for new titles above this post. I've updated the OP and details of some previous announcements.
For example, Lady from Shanghai & Experiment in Terror received their final artwork:

Just released (on February 20) are:
008 - BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (Otto Preminger, 1965)
010 - THE LAST DETAIL (Hal Ashby, 1973)
012 - THE ANDERSON TAPES (Sidney Lumet, 1971)

If you want to keep updated by Indicator, join their newsletter here: http://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/subscribe

The May titles will be announced on March 3

I'm too lazy right now to post the reviews from their latest releases, but to sum it up, all knocked the ball very far out of the park

 

[Noodles]

I really need to catch up with the Indicator line and purchase them all... so far the ones I have (first 5 releases) were all blind buys for me and I haven't been disappointed with a single one of them! Some really incredible films that I probably wouldn't have even considered checking out if it weren't for Powerhouse giving them such fantastic releases.

 

[Noodles]

By the way... how many of you turn the sleeves around to display the clean side (without rating logos) of the artwork? It's one of the first things I do when I buy them, but I see so many other people posting photos on social media of their copies with the rating logos still showing... it kinda freaks me out a little.

 

[dan8885]

I really need to catch up with the Indicator line and purchase them all... so far the ones I have (first 5 releases) were all blind buys for me and I haven't been disappointed with a single one of them! Some really incredible films that I probably wouldn't have even considered checking out if it weren't for Powerhouse giving them such fantastic releases.

I also only have the first 5 releases. But since I bought now the Harryhausen movies from Koch Media with Slipcover I decided to not collect all of their releases.
That's the misfortune of an OCD collector with series that are numbered So I'll pass on "Happy Birthday to me" and the two Carpenters and will get "Bunny Lake is Missing", "The Last Detail", "The New Centurions" and "The Anderson Tapes" next. And of course I'll get the three latest announcements. Super excited for "The Lady from Shanghai" and "The Big Heat"

By the way... how many of you turn the sleeves around to display the clean side (without rating logos) of the artwork? It's one of the first things I do when I buy them, but I see so many other people posting photos on social media of their copies with the rating logos still showing... it kinda freaks me out a little.

Right now, I didn't turned the sleeves around The rating logo bugs me too but on the other hand I really like that rainbow indicator logo thing at the top of the artwork
And, I like the darker 10 Rillington Place artwork more than the red one on the flipside. So If I don't turn this around I can't turn the others around It's a mess I know.

 

[Noodles]

I also only have the first 5 releases. But since I bought now the Harryhausen movies from Koch Media with Slipcover I decided to not collect all of their releases.
That's the misfortune of an OCD collector with series that are numbered So I'll pass on "Happy Birthday to me" and the two Carpenters and will get "Bunny Lake is Missing", "The Last Detail", "The New Centurions" and "The Anderson Tapes" next. And of course I'll get the three latest announcements. Super excited for "The Lady from Shanghai" and "The Big Heat"



Right now, I didn't turned the sleeves around The rating logo bugs me too but on the other hand I really like that rainbow indicator logo thing at the top of the artwork
And, I like the darker 10 Rillington Place artwork more than the red one on the flipside. So If I don't turn this around I can't turn the others around It's a mess I know.

I know exactly what you mean mate... there's been times when I've passed on certain releases just to get a different version from a numbered series I've been collecting for a while. And I also totally understand what you mean about reversing the sleeves... I like the multicoloured banner that runs along the top too, but I dislike rating logos more lol. I had the same dilemma with Rillington Place as well - I prefer the darker image, but like you said... that'd mean having to keep all the others the same way around too. OCD certainly is a crazy thing!

 

[dan8885]

I know exactly what you mean mate... there's been times when I've passed on certain releases just to get a different version from a numbered series I've been collecting for a while. And I also totally understand what you mean about reversing the sleeves... I like the multicoloured banner that runs along the top too, but I dislike rating logos more lol. I had the same dilemma with Rillington Place as well - I prefer the darker image, but like you said... that'd mean having to keep all the others the same way around too. OCD certainly is a crazy thing!

We're lost

Another let down is that they increased the price. All recent releases where not available for 12.99 in pre-order with Amazon (except The Last Detail) and it seems like that HMV don't do the 2 for 25 on them anymore.
The releases are definitely worth the 15.99, and it's still lower than Criterion but when you do 3-4 releases per month and you're fan every penny that you could safe counts

 

[Noodles]

We're lost

Another let down is that they increased the price. All recent releases where not available for 12.99 in pre-order with Amazon (except The Last Detail) and it seems like that HMV don't do the 2 for 25 on them anymore.
The releases are definitely worth the 15.99, and it's still lower than Criterion but when you do 3-4 releases per month and you're fan every penny that you could safe counts

Hmm yeah, I'd noticed that and it's part of why I'm yet to pick up the new ones. I agree the higher price still isn't too bad, especially when you consider all the effort they put in to their releases, but like you said... trying to keep on top of these plus releases from other labels can be very expensive! I guess we should consider ourselves lucky for having so much choice nowadays though... it just makes it difficult to fully support them all lol.

 

[dan8885]

Hmm yeah, I'd noticed that and it's part of why I'm yet to pick up the new ones. I agree the higher price still isn't too bad, especially when you consider all the effort they put in to their releases, but like you said... trying to keep on top of these plus releases from other labels can be very expensive! I guess we should consider ourselves lucky for having so much choice nowadays though... it just makes it difficult to fully support them all lol.

The movie market in the UK was SO strong in 2016. So much amazing releases from all the great labels like Indicator, Criterion UK, MoC, Arrow, BFI and more. Probably the best year ever!
It's amazing but also no way to keep up with all the releases. My "Saved for later" list on Amazon UK is 89 items strong